Music Players

Music players are the widest and oldest way of sharing music through just the sound to the ear, but also technically, through copying music. In this lesson today we analyzed the history and development of these players form the 1870s through to the present day.


1870s
Gramophone
= Music distribution began here with the birth of the vinyls

1963
Casette
= replaced the LP

-'Boom Box' + cassette 'Walkman' were the first form of file sharing
= no longer needed producers
-pop music became even more popular


1982
CD
-developed by Sony and Phillips
-same release date as Sony's Billy Joel's 52nd street + the first Cd Player
-this was a prime example of Vertical Intergration
-However it decreased in sales when Mp3s came in.

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Evolution of Music Players

Transistor Radio
-1954
-Similar design to iPod

Boom Box
-1970
-Associated with the Ghetto culture AKA Ghetto Blaster

Walkman
-1980s
-Tape Walkman designed and created by Sony was a devise that aloud you to carry around the one song that was on your Cassette tape
-Cd Walkman was the same principal just for a Cd instead

Mp3 Player
-1998
-Saehan's Mp Man f10

iPod
-2001
-Apple's most bought product
-The best selling music player ever

When studying the history and evolution of music players, we can see as technology has developed, the lifetime for a product has decreased...